Senior Design Manager

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Company Name: Kier

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Assured Delivery team based Nationwide. We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, and we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. We offer market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers., we actively promote, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Location: Nationwide - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required. Hours: 42 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us. We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role. What will you be responsible for? As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Assured Delivery team. You'll be at the heart of managing design excellence across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects within Kier Design. You'll work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, providing expert guidance to ensure design quality, innovation and compliance across Transportation, Water, Environment and Energy sectors. Your day to day will include: Leading design management and engineering assurance, maintaining control of design programmes, budgets and quality standards Managing interfaces between stakeholders, design teams and construction teams throughout the project lifecycle Chairing interdisciplinary coordination meetings and owning engineering discipline interfaces Leading design development with a focus on buildability, safety, sustainability and value engineering Ensuring technical compliance and quality control across all design requirements What are we looking for? This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if: You have a degree in an engineering discipline and are professionally qualified (CEng/IEng) or working towards qualification, have experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering and construction projects You're a collaborative team player with excellent communication skills and relationship-building abilities You're resourceful and creative with a talent for innovative problem-solving You have detailed knowledge of CDM 2015 and strong technical and information management skills, with a valid driving licence Rewards and benefits We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here . Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here . As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier. #LI-MA1